Working In It and Working On It {Building Marriage}

In the business world that Joel and I live in, we talk a lot about working in our business versus working on it.

Working in our business means doing what I call the “busy work”. It’s writing blogs, designing albums, editing sessions, sending emails, and the four hundred and twenty-eight other details that go into every wedding.

Working on our business means doing things that will bring out business and our minds to the next level. Reading business books, going through online courses, networking, or developing new goals with new visions. They’re not tasks directly relating to a wedding, but things that build the business itself.

How does this apply to marriage?

I was thinking about how easy it is to get into a rut of only working in your marriage and not on it.

Cooking dinner, cleaning the house, general conversation, going to work, maybe even going to the kids’ soccer game together – they’re all part of the daily to-do list of your married lives.

But when’s the last time you had a heartfelt discussion about how well you’re speaking each others’ love languages? Or talked about something that you need help dealing with emotionally? Or told him all the reasons you appreciate the little things he does?

Working on your marriage is just as important as doing the things that come along with the territory of living daily life

What is one way you can work on your marriage this week in an encouraging, intentional way?

*hugs*

Amber